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Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 15 Apr 2015 15:00 Release Date: 15 Apr 2015 3841 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Windows OS

TYPE: Windows OS

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Hyper-V when an authenticated attacker runs a specially crafted application in a virtual machine (VM) session. Note that the denial of service does not allow an attacker to execute code or elevate user rights on other VMs running on the Hyper-V host; however, it could cause other VMs on the host to not be manageable in Virtual Machine Manager.


Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server 2012 R2

Solutions

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